powderfreak

It’s so awesome when events like that hit the non-climo favored areas. Everyone is sort of numb to it when it’s JSpin, Alex or myself at the mountain.... but to get that there in central NH is awesome.

Meso-scale is the best... I'm telling ya, the isolated smoke shows are awesome. Don't need any flashy model runs, just let it happen.

Decent amount of blowing snow this afternoon, even in the low lands.

This was 2pm when the squalls and arctic front passed us. Visibility was very low. Some folks on the hill had to stop and wait it out. Even for here with the orographic lift, that was an impressive burst. Middle of the afternoon and this rolls through.

Another excellent day. 18" in past 4 days on the mountain. And this photo was before the heavy squalls hit this afternoon.

Nice J.Spin! I had about 4.25" from the event total (early morning and this afternoon)... depth at 9" You definitely looked to take the brunt of that squall. Looked like the core went right down I-89.

Best squall line of the season here, IMO. ASOS spots hit 1/4sm and I’ve got 4” at home between early morning and today. 9” on the ground finally. Short lived though.

KMVL 081952Z AUTO 30015G28KT 1/4SM +SN

Thunder in BTV. This is just a pure whiteout. Internal stake cam picked up 1" in 15 minutes at 3,300ft. Up to 5" since 5:30am.

This is some truly heavy snow. Wow. Can’t even see from one end of the hotel to the other.

I'm hearing reports of thunder in BTV with that squall.

It just keeps cranking.

Another couple inches since 5:30am at the mountain. Pulses of moisture moving through but speckled with 30-35dbz at times produces some pretty healthy rates for short durations.

lol what an ugly 10-day run of the Euro last night.

It just keeps snowing. Gotta enjoy it while it’s here. 14” in 4 days at the ski area, all at 2-3” every 12 hours. 1.5” on the car at home and 2.0” in the parking lot at 5:30am up at the office. This stuff feels denser. But it’s literally been 4 days straight of nickel and dime snowfall. We’ll take it as a substitute.

1.5” at home and snowing steadily. Has some density to it clearing the car. The little critter trough getting it done.

Ha you barely beat me to that one. Ripping and pounding as all ASOS are 1.5 miles...but it is a very steady snow. I think folks think of moderate not in terms of visibility but just that it’s snowing hard enough to accumulate quickly on roads. Its almost like another scale from the human perspective (not visibility related)... Light snow is flurries or non accumulating stuff. Moderate is when it’s steady enough to accumulate and heavy snow is like 0.5-1” per hour regardless of visibility (can often get up to 1” in an hour from 0.75 or 1.0 vis)

Agreed. I often think it’s moderate and then see the ASOS is like 1.25sm -SN. I’ve definitely tuned down my estimates over the years. A 1-1.5sm light snow is a pretty darn steady snowfall that will accumulate pretty quick. Even 2-3sm -SN can seem real steady with the right flakes. At night it’s impossible to tell anyway. I think “ripping” on here is used far too often for what is a steady 1-2 mile vis -SN.

Hopefully you guys can pull off some snow. As I am usually talking about, just 1-2” can do good things for the overall wintry appeal.

Time to install?

Haven't posted some photos in a while... here's the past two days on Mansfield:

I mean 4 days ago this was going to rain hard for you and snow up here. I don’t think it was unreasonable for anyone southeast of ORH to think they had a shot.

Ha I was thinking that... a little critter in NVT dropped a widespread 4-6” last night in the Northeast Kingdom of VT and it barely showed up on models. Maybe this little critter can do the same down there.

I just saw that! NEK got crushed by that “little critter” as SNE says. Widespread 4-6” on Cocorahs.

Wow. 15F at RUT (10F at Middlebury) in the southern Champlain Valley and 60s in eastern Mass. Not sure I’ve seen a progged gradient like that. One helluva flash freeze. Keeps going... 8F at my house while windows are open in Weymouth? 50-degree spread is something else.